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Moby Grape '69

I just picked up the Sundazed reissue of this long-forgotten album (which has apparently languished for years in some sort of legal dispurte with the band's manager). It's fantastic--looser and possibly even better than their widely-revered debut. From what I've gleaned, this record was made after their overblown second record, Wow, tanked and their resident mad genius, Skip Spence left--although Spence contributed the final track, which is incredible. Among the mountains of discs I've heard of late, this one's the real standout.
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loomisjohnson OP
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jaybo--i've noticed we have similar tastes--have you heard anything recently i might have missed?
what was really unique about moby grape was that all five members wrote at such a high level--very few bands have as many as three strong songwriters (cf badfinger, teenage fanclub, the shoes). their stuff doesn't sound dated in the slightest--most of ths decade's artists would kill to make records this strong.
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